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Veteri consuetudine...continet enim venustissimas optices, quam perspectivam nominant viginti figuras
Vues d'optique
Veteri consuetudine...continet enim venustissimas optices, quam perspectivam nominant viginti figuras
Jacques Androuet Ducerceau (French, about 1515–about 1585)
After: Michele (Lucchese) Greco (Italian, active 1553–1604)
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Italian, 1634–1718)
After: Michele (Lucchese) Greco (Italian, active 1553–1604)
Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (Italian, 1634–1718)
1551
Place of Publication: Orléans, France
Medium/Technique
Set of etched title and 22 etchings
Dimensions
Overall: 25.8 x 20.6 x 1.2 cm (10 3/16 x 8 1/8 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Ellen Page Hall Fund
Accession Number34.830
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Orléans: the artist, 1551
Catalogue Raisonné
Berlin 2356; Geymüller, p. 300; BN, Inventaire 16th, I, pp. 60-61
Description(Orléans: the artist, 1551) Quarto; 23 leaves; modern half black-stamped brown morocco, decorative paper boards.
Perspective and architectural views. Each plate is separately mounted on album folios. Note: plate [23] has been identified by Peter Fuhring (2002) as by a "follower" of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli.
Perspective and architectural views. Each plate is separately mounted on album folios. Note: plate [23] has been identified by Peter Fuhring (2002) as by a "follower" of Giuseppe Maria Mitelli.
ProvenanceGeorges Mathias, Paris, from whom acquired by MFA, October 4, 1934.